An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1G. Richards, 1904 - 687 páginas |
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... Expense of maintaining the National Capital CHAPTER III Of the Accumulation of Capital , or of Productive and Unproductive Labour . PAGE 313 368 CHAPTER IV Of Stock lent at Interest CHAPTER V Of the different Employments of Capitals ...
... Expense of maintaining the National Capital CHAPTER III Of the Accumulation of Capital , or of Productive and Unproductive Labour . PAGE 313 368 CHAPTER IV Of Stock lent at Interest CHAPTER V Of the different Employments of Capitals ...
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... expenses of the sovereign , or common- wealth ; which of those expenses ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society , and which of them , by that of some particular part only , or of some particular members of ...
... expenses of the sovereign , or common- wealth ; which of those expenses ought to be defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society , and which of them , by that of some particular part only , or of some particular members of ...
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... expense bestowed upon them , produce more in proportion to the extent and natural fertility of the ground . But this superiority of produce is seldom much more than in proportion to the superiority of labour and expense . In agriculture ...
... expense bestowed upon them , produce more in proportion to the extent and natural fertility of the ground . But this superiority of produce is seldom much more than in proportion to the superiority of labour and expense . In agriculture ...
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... expense of land - carriage between London and Calcutta ? Or if there were any so precious as to be able to support this · expense , with what safety could they be transported through LIMITS TO DIVISION OF LABOUR 21.
... expense of land - carriage between London and Calcutta ? Or if there were any so precious as to be able to support this · expense , with what safety could they be transported through LIMITS TO DIVISION OF LABOUR 21.
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Adam Smith. expense , with what safety could they be transported through the territories of so many barbarous nations ? Those two cities , however , at present carry on a very considerable commerce with each other , and by mutu- ally ...
Adam Smith. expense , with what safety could they be transported through the territories of so many barbarous nations ? Those two cities , however , at present carry on a very considerable commerce with each other , and by mutu- ally ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1892 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1887 |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1 Adam Smith Vista completa - 1870 |
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afford altogether ancient annual produce bank Bank of England bills of exchange bullion butcher's meat carried cattle cent century cheaper circulating capital coin commerce commonly consumed consumption continually counties of Scotland dearer diminish division of labour employed employment England Europe exchange expense farmer fertile foreign frequently gold and silver greater quantity increase industry interest land and labour landlord less maintain manner manufactures master ment merchant mines money price natural price naturally necessarily necessary neighbourhood occasion ounce paid paper money particular perhaps Peru pound weight pounds precious metals price of corn price of labour productive labour profits of stock proportion proprietor purchase quantity of labour quantity of silver raise real price regulated rent revenue rise rude produce Scotland seems seldom sestertii shillings society sometimes sort subsistence sufficient supply supposed surplus tillage tivated town trade value of silver wages of labour wealth wheat whole workmen
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Página 146 - People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Página 137 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 16 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 55 - As soon as the land of any country has all become , private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 160 - England, where it is often more difficult for a poor man to pass the artificial boundary of a parish, than an arm of the sea or a ridge of high mountains, natural boundaries which sometimes separate very distinctly different rates of wages in other countries.
Página 377 - Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater.
Página 313 - ... into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent...
Página 87 - But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Página 419 - The consideration of his own private profit is the sole motive which determines the owner of any capital to employ it either in agriculture, in manufactures, or in some particular branch of the wholesale or retail trade.
Página 18 - But without the disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, every man must have procured to himself every necessary and conveniency of life which he wanted. All must have had the same duties to perform, and the same work to do, and there could have been no such difference of employment as could alone give occasion to any great difference of talents.